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Re: I WILL ANSWER ALL OF YOUR QUESTIONS
« Reply #30 on: August 24, 2019, 05:21:37 pm »
What's with the ashes and cricket? I know what cricket (or Krikkit) is from reading "Life the Universe and Everything" but I don't understand about the ashes, or what they are in fact (besides the by product of burning wood of some sort).

Back in the day, when England were good at stuff, Australia beat them at cricket in England for the first time, and a local newspaper posted an obituary for English Cricket.  They said it had been cremated and the ashes taken back to Australia.   At the next tour of Australia by England,  some bright spark decided to offer up an urn containg them as a trophy and from there it went.  They usually play every two years, I think.

As an aside, I'm a big fan of the book.